EPA Administrator Pruitt Needs to Stop Needing the Left to Like Him

During the awful epoch that was the Barack Obama Administration, Scott Pruitt was a fearless free market champion.

Pruitt was in 2010 elected Oklahoma’s Attorney General. And in that capacity he spent a lot of his time fending off the Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a whip and a chair.

As an Attorney General, Pruitt’s whip and chair – were lawsuits. Lots and lots of lawsuits. Fourteen, all told. Do not be mistaken – Pruitt was not overly litigious. The Obama EPA was just that obnoxiously overreaching.

The Obama EPA was actually even more obnoxiously overreaching than that. I’m guessing Pruitt was limited to just the fourteen – by a lack of sufficient resources.

Pruitt was doing God’s work – tending His freedom fields.

So of course the Left loathed him.

Then happened one the most miraculous miracles in the history of miraculous miracles – Donald Trump won the presidency. And immediately began enacting his Undo-the-Obama-Administration-Agenda agenda.

And who better to choose to head up the EPA – than Scott Pruitt.

So of course the Left loathed it.

And that’s exactly what we less government types want – in all things: Someone the Left loathes.

To be a less government type in DC (or the Silicon Valley, or Hollywood, or on college campuses, or…), you have to like being liked for the right reasons – and LOVE being loathed for the right reasons.

You must revel in the hate the Left levels at you. Because the Left is going to level a whole lot of hate at you. They are bottomless pits of it.

Pruitt seemed like just the man for this particular job.

And for a while – Pruitt was. He began rolling back all sorts of Obama Era ridiculous overreaches – all while reorienting the agency to an approach not quite so openly hostile to all things free market.

Pruitt pledged to end the EPA’s ridiculous flights of global warming – oops, I mean climate change – fancy. And return the agency to its charter roots.

“Both the state of Missouri and the federal government have conducted extensive testing of the levels of radioactivity, which decline year after year, and found that the levels are well within what is considered safe and acceptable.

If “the levels are well within what is considered safe and acceptable” – then there’s no need to cave into the latest in the Left’s endless list of ridiculous demands.